[Xastir] Feature idea for Xastir

[Gerry Creager]

Of course, we could obfuscate this a bit...

Richard Polivka wrote:
> Age before beauty.... perl before python???
> (duck)
> 
> 73 from 807,
> 
> Richard, N6NKO
> 
> */Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>/* wrote:
> 
>     Argh. Not VBscript! XML? perl?
> 
>     William McKeehan wrote:
>      > Has anyone thought about adding a scripting capability within Xastir?
>      >
>      > I'm thinking about something like some VB script (or similar)
>     that would allow
>      > a relatively non-developer to create little applications which
>     lets Xastir do
>      > the heavy lifting.
>      >
>      > An example of the type of thing that I'm thinking about would be
>     keeping track
>      > of how many runners have pasted a particular point. An Xastir
>     station at that
>      > particular point would execute this script which would prompt for
>     a number.
>      > The user would enter a number and the script/Xastir would handle
>     the rest. The
>      > rest could be creating and sending a message to the NCS station
>     with the
>      > updated information or it could be creating an object using this
>     information.
>      >
>      > Am I off my rocker or is this an idea worth considering?
> 
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